[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 615: Support for IANA Time Zones in the Standard Library

2020-03-29 Thread Paul Ganssle
Hi all, It seems like discussion on PEP 615 has mostly petered off. The last remaining unresolved issue didn't get any comments, which was whether the module should be called "zoneinfo" or put somewhere in the "datetime" hierarchy, so I've gone ahead and moved that into "rejected ideas" in this PR

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2020-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm talking about the "switch to Python 3" banner that we need to add per discussion in https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/3 . I am pretty sure it's not too late for that. -Sumana On 3/29/20 10:23 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: IMHO it's

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2020-03-29 Thread Victor Stinner
IMHO it's too late to touch the Python 2.7 documentation. Victor Le dim. 29 mars 2020 à 16:01, Sumana Harihareswara a écrit : > > On 3/27/20 12:49 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > Benjamin: now that PyCon 2020 has been cancelled, are you considering > > releasing 2.7.18 slightly earlier? > >

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 616 -- String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes

2020-03-29 Thread Victor Stinner
My intent is to help people like me to follow the discussion on the PEP. There are more than 100 messages, it's hard to follow PEP updates. Victor Le dim. 29 mars 2020 à 14:55, Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev a écrit : > > > > On 28/03/2020 17:02, Victor Stinner wrote: > > What do you think of adding

[Python-Dev] Re: The Python 2 death march

2020-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 3/27/20 12:49 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Benjamin: now that PyCon 2020 has been cancelled, are you considering releasing 2.7.18 slightly earlier? (I ask because: before you do that, I would like to submit some changes to the documentation for the 2.7 branch, to indicate to users that

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 616 -- String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes

2020-03-29 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev
On 28/03/2020 17:02, Victor Stinner wrote: What do you think of adding a Version History section which lists most important changes since your proposed the first version of the PEP? I recall: * Version 3: don't accept tuple * Version 2: Rename cutprefix/cutsuffix to removeprefix/removesuffix,